Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

But let me see thee stoop from heaven on wings That fill the sky with silver glitterings!

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

We must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion, or with any other feeling than regret and hope and brotherly commiseration.

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite.

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.